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| On 16 April 1932, the US Navy ordered two prototypes of
a new shipboard fighter under the designations
XF11C-1 and XF11C-2, the former with a 600hp Wright
R-1510-98 two-row radial and the latter with a 700hp
Wright R-1820-78 single-row radial. The latter was, in
fact, a company demonstrator which had been flying
for some time and was of mixed construction (fabriccovered
wooden wings and fabric-covered metal fuselage
and tail surfaces), whereas the XF11C-1, which
utilised the wings of the YP-23, was of fabric-covered all-metal construction and was delivered in September
1932. The R-1820-78 Cyclone and mixed structure of the
XF11C-2 found favour with the US Navy, and, on 18
October 1932, a production order was placed for 28
F11C-2s, deliveries of which began in February 1933
and were completed in the following May. The fourth
aircraft on the contract was completed with a
manually-retractable undercarriage as the XF11C-3,
subsequently being redesignated XBF2C-1 with adoption
of the "bomber-fighter" category in March 1934. Simultaneously, the F11C-2s were redesignated as
BFC-2s. Armament comprised two 7.62mm
Browning machine guns and a single bomb of up to
227kg or four 51kg bombs could be carried.
The BFC-2 remained in US Navy service until 1938.
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| CREW | 1 |
| ENGINE | 1 x Wright R-1820-78, 515kW |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 2104-2300 kg | 4639 - 5071 lb |
| Empty weight | 1515 kg | 3340 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 9.6 m | 32 ft 6 in |
| Length | 7.6 m | 25 ft 11 in |
| Height | 3.2 m | 11 ft 6 in |
| Wing area | 23.5 m2 | 252.95 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 320 km/h | 199 mph |
| Cruise speed | 250 km/h | 155 mph |
| Ceiling | 7400 m | 24300 ft |
| Range w/max.fuel | 920 km | 572 miles |
| Range w/max payload | 460 km | 286 miles |
| ARMAMENT | 2 x 7.62mm machine-guns |
| Tim O. Reutter, e-mail, 26.01.2015 17:46 Is it true that the partial canopy is due to pilot dislike of the full canopy? reply | | Bert Brown, e-mail, 27.07.2013 00:39 Was there an FC-11 C-4?
If som do you have any idea where I might locate details, photos, etc?
Thanks... reply | | Bert Brown, e-mail, 27.07.2013 00:39 Was there an FC-11 C-4?
If som do you have any idea where I might locate details, photos, etc?
Thanks... reply | | Dan Ballard, e-mail, 31.05.2013 05:11 Does anyone know the minimum takeoff distance for this aircraft (loaded)? And have different were the performance numbers for the retractable gear version? reply | |
| | Michal Mietelski, e-mail, 17.03.2012 20:56 The only surviving Goshawk is the particular a /c pictured in flight above. An Export Hawk II registered D-IRIK was bought by Reichstagspraesident Hermann Goering for testing dive-bombing techniques. Another WWI fighter ace - Oberst Ernst Udet - used it for the aerobatic show at opening the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, while the 1935 Henschel 123 looks astonishingly similar. During the WW2 the Germans left this Goshawk on Polish soil and since 1964 its fuselage (with R-1820 in working order) is exhibited within the Polish Aviation Museum. reply | | Charnon J., e-mail, 10.09.2010 19:14 I ever ask the history expert,He told me,RTAF got 2 of HAWK2.One of these had damage from accident,The last was destroyed after WW2.Only HAWK3 survived. reply | | David S Jorgensen, e-mail, 12.08.2008 05:26 As a child, in 1934 or 1936, I, along with my parents, visted the curtis factory in California. I took a picture of the curtis bi-plane with a box brownie camera. I thought it was a Curtis S04C or a Goshawk. It did not, however, have a three bladed prop. A Watchman wanted to confiscate the camera but my Father told him "look around at all of the adults of this large crowd looking at the plane. Don't you think your action is a little ridculous?"
he let me take the camera. I lost a beautiful shot of the plane and I wish I could find another. Dave Jorgensen reply | | Roger Ward, e-mail, 20.12.2006 05:13 There were also the Curtis Hawk III biplane and the Hawk 75 monoplane, examples are in the Royal Thai Air Force Museum at Don Muang Airport, Bangkok, Thailand. www.rtaf.mi.th /museum /BLDG2-2.HTM reply |
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